Ireth
Myth Weaver
The MC of my WIP is believed to be dead for a time, only to show up again, alive and (mostly) well. His friend finds him and basically rips him a new one, wondering where he was all this time and why they couldn't find him. I'm looking for a phrase that would be equivalent to "Where the hell have you been?", except I can't use hell for a few reasons. The characters in question are both Celtic Fae in an era prior to the spread of Christianity through Europe, which means: a) they have and want to have nothing to do with Christianity or its influences, and b) being non-human, they have neither souls nor an afterlife of any sort, and c) they themselves don't worship any gods, because they're basically demigods in their own right. What sort of things might be believable to substitute for such a specifically religion-based phrase?
EDIT: Also, I can't really use "Where in Faerie" as a replacement for the milder "Where in the world", because the MC was kidnapped to a different world (not Earth), where he was believed dead by those who went to rescue him.
EDIT: Also, I can't really use "Where in Faerie" as a replacement for the milder "Where in the world", because the MC was kidnapped to a different world (not Earth), where he was believed dead by those who went to rescue him.
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